Parenting the Challenging Child in the “Noughties” by Bridget Wren “Temperament is indicated by behaviour that clusters into three categories: easy, slow to warm up, and difficult. No category makes a child good or bad. They merely describe s child’s response...

This article was written by Santie Smit (Director of NILD SA) with information from Steven M. Burnik, Ph,D. In recent times the effect of slow processing speed on learning has become more evident. Even though SPS is not a formal learning difficulty, it...

By Jacquie Johnston I wonder how many parents reading this are looking back on their own journey with mathematics at school. I think I can safely surmise that a large percentage of you are remembering times of anxiety, frustration and bewilderment. You concluded...

When I was only 7 years old my parents found out that I had dyslexia, immediately they sent me for numerous tests to see the extent to the diagnosis. They were told that I had a 15 mark discrepancy between my verbal and non-verbal IQ. I never understood what was wrong...

When your child has a Learning Difficulty it is often very difficult for a parent or sibling to understand how a task that is easy for most people is so difficult for the LD child. Dysgraphia, or difficulty with writing, is often a visual-motor difficulty. In...

When we learn our brain has to do three things. Firstly it has to receive information through our various senses (perception). It then has to process, or make sense of, the information (cognition/thinking) and then it has to respond to the information (written or...

Although learning disabilities are as individual as thumbprints, most fall into three basic categories: dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia. However, people with learning disabilities might experience weaknesses in one, two or even all three of these areas. Dyslexia...

Ask the average ‘man on the street’ about dyslexia and the reply that you will probably get is, “Oh yes, that’s when you muddle up your b’s and d’s.” This simplistic definition has led to people seeing dyslexia as a visual condition, where the dyslexic’s brain is...